1st Edition
The Turkish Economy The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform
Contents Contributors List of Tables and Figures Preface Part I: The Real Economy 1. Productivity and Growth, 1923-2003 Sumru Altug and Alpay Filiztekin 2. Income and Consumption Inequality for Turkey: What Role Does Education Play? Burcu Duygan and Nezih Güner 3. Female Labor Supply in Turkey Insan Tunali and Cem Baslevent 4. A Disaggregated Analysis of Price Dynamics Mustafa Çaglayan and Alpay Filiztekin Part II: The Corporate Sector 5. Capital Structure Decisions of Turkish Firms Yilmaz Güney, Aydin Özkan, and Kürsat Yalçiner 6. Firm-level Profitability, Liquidity, and Investment B. Burçin Yurtoglu 7. Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance of Turkish Companies Halit Gönenç Part III: The Government Sector and Reform 8. Privatization: What has been achieved? Çagla Ökten 9. The Political Economy of Pension Reform Serdar Sayan 10. The Turkish Banking Sector: A Rough Ride From Crisis to Maturation Ali Tükel, Murat Üçer and Caroline Van Rijckeghem Bibliography Index
Biography
Sumru Altu? is professor at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç university in Istanbul. Her fields of interest include business cycles, investment, productivity and growth, intertemporal models of consumption and labour supply, and financial markets. Her previous publications include Dynamic Choice and Asset Markets (Academic Press, 1994) with Pamela Labadie, and Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium (Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Jagjit Chadha and Charles Nolan.
Alpay Filiztekin is an Associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University in Istanbul. His fields of research include growth theory, regional economics, productivity dynamics and real costs of inflation.
'This volume offers a strong collection of articles, each covering a different aspect of economic life in Turkey...I find The Turkish Economy to be a welcome addtion to the literature' - Tolga Koker, Yale University, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2008
